Summer / Autumn 2008
SPECIAL SERVICES AND MUSICAL EVENTS
Monday 14th July
7.30 pm at St Hilda’s Cross Green Lane, Leeds 9
Solemn Mass – 175h anniversary of the Assize Sermon at the start of the “Oxford” movement – Music by Tomas Luis da Victoria sung by Saynte Peter’s Clerkes
Friday 18th July
12.30 pm Lunchtime Organ Music Concert by Alan McGuinness of St Asaph Cathedral
Final Concert in the David Houlder and friends series
There is no Lunchtime Organ Music on Friday 25th July
Sunday 20th July
10.30 am Bligny Commemoration Choral Eucharist with Act of Remembrance
Full Adult Choir – the only Choral Service in July
Wednesday 23rd July
5.30 pm at Ely Cathedral – Choral Evensong by the Choir of Leeds Parish Church
Perosi – Magnificat; Thorpe Davie – Come, Holy Ghost, the Maker, come
Thursday 24th July
4.00 pm at the Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge
Choral Recital by the Choir of Leeds Parish Church
A short late afternoon programme of music – free to those visiting the Chapel
Friday 25th July
1.00 pm at The National Musicians’ Church, St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, London EC1
- the Church of the “Bells of Old Bailey” in the Nursery Rhyme
Choral Concert by the Choir of Leeds Parish Church including Pearsall’s Requiem
Saturday 26th July
11.15 am at All Saints’ Pastoral Centre, London Colney, near St Albans [M25 Junction 22]
Choral Eucharist according to the Book of Common Prayer
Sunday 27th July
11.00 am at the Chapel of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London SW3
Choral Matins – Combined Choirs of Leeds Parish Church & The Royal Hospital
Sunday 3rd August
7.45 pm Romantic Organ Masterworks – the first Recital of the 2008 Series
Dr Simon Lindley, organist
Sunday 10th August
7.45 pm Romantic Organ Masterworks – the second Recital of the 2008 Series
Celebrity Concert by the brilliant young Norwegian organist Arnfinn Tobiassen
Sunday 17th August
7.45 pm Romantic Organ Masterworks – Dr Simon Lindley gives the third concert of five
Sunday 24th August
7.45 pm Romantic Organ Masterworks – Dr Simon Lindley gives the fourth recital
Sunday 31st August
7.45 pm Romantic Organ Masterworks – Dr Simon Lindley gives the final recital of the series
Sunday 7th September – Anniversary Sunday at Leeds Parish Church
10.30 am Dedication Festival Eucharist – Choral Mass of the Sunday morning following the anniversary of the Consecration of the new building on 2nd September 1841
6.30 pm Special Festal Evensong on the 150th anniversary of the Royal Visit to Leeds in 1858 for the opening of the Town Hall and the 10th anniversary of the Dedication in 1998 of the Parish Church’s Angel Screen in memory of Lord and Lady Marshall
Thursday 18th September
7.30 pm at St Hilda’s, Cross Green Lane, Leeds 9
High Mass of the Dedication – sung by Saynte Peter’s Clerkes
Battle of Britain Sunday 21st September
10.30 am Choral Eucharist – Battle of Britain Commemoration with act of Remembrance
Sunday 28th September – Friends of the Music Festival Sunday
10.30 am Choral Festal Matins
3.00 pm Choral Festal Evensong
Harvest Festival Sunday 5th October
10.30 am Choral Eucharist, attended by British Nuclear Test Veterans
6.30 pm Harvest Thanksgiving Choral Evensong
Monday 6th October
1.05 pm Yorkshire Three Choirs’ Festival Lunchtime Concert
Choirs of Wakefield Cathedral, Leeds Parish Church & Ripon Cathedral
Admission Free – A Leeds City Council Lunchtime Music event
Friday 10th October
7.00 pm Organ Concert by Dr Simon Lindley in aid of Parish Youth Work
Admission is free to this special 60th birthday recital
Retiring Collection for the Parish of Leeds City’s work with young people
Sunday 26th October
7.30 pm in York Minster
Gala Choral Concert by St Peter’s Singers with music by
Donald Hunt, Francis Jackson, Philip Moore and Simon Lindley
conducted by the composers
Sunday 2nd November
10.30 am Choral Eucharist of Requiem for departed Benefactors and Faithful
6.30 pm Choral Festal Evensong of All Saints